Moccasins

Moccasins

Moccasins

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Introduction

Haudenosaunee-style moccasins with centre-seam, beaded vamp and cuffs. Tanned hide is decorated in beadwork on the vamp and cuffs, which have deteriorated to the point where most of the beads on vamp are missing, and the silk ribbon has detached from the cuff.

Nation of Maker: Hodenosaunee/Haudenosaunee
Date Made or Date Range: before 1947
Materials

smoked hide, silk ribbon, glass beads, no lining, beige thread (possibly cotton)

Techniques or Format

Each made of single piece of leather. Appears to have a central seam, narrow vamp of a separate piece of hide sewn over the seam, and ribbon sewn around the vamp. Single seam at the heel. Rossette of silk ribbon with beads at the centre at the top of vamp, appears floral. Beadwork on vamp. Beaded edge on silk ribbon on cuffs

Motifs and Patterns

Vamp: Possibly floral motifs on vamp. Green beads possibly stem and leaves, meet the silk ribbon rossette at the top of the vamp to create a possibly floral motif. Zigzags on cuffs

Dimensions: 24.765 × 9.525 × 9.525 cm
Condition: poor to fair
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catalog data

Current Location: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: E26311
Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1947
Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Gift of Howard Corning, 1947 (catalog data)
GKS Reference Number: 45065
Record Creation Context

Visit to Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA) of Wahsontiio Cross and Alexandra Nahwegahbow, assisted by Eric Wohlin on 10 August 2015.

Approximate Place of Origin

44.2, -84.4

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